Tag: silence

English words in South African accents, latest western hit music and the sound of footsteps...incoming and outbound...fill the ambience of the eatery I have chosen to spend my spare hour...or two. I am seated at a bright red booth meant for 6...I asked the waiter for one...I guess my backpack gets a seat then. I hear … Continue reading Note 3: Eating out

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The Weighting Aisle: Dismantling structures of power in the check-out aisle In the piece, ‘Is it fake? Black Women’s Hair as Spectacle and Spectacular’ (1995), author Deborah Grayson states, ‘Hairstyle has become a battleground where issues related to the politics of personal appearance and beauty are being fought out.’ Further elaborating that, ‘due to mixed […]

Reading the text, S’Kop by Tanya Zack, the author narratives the story of the life of the relatively unseen -yet known- bovine butchers of the Johannesburg CBD. Thus, the aim of this exercise was to translate the narrative into visual manifestation based on my understanding of the text. But in respect of 5 themes: Lives, […]